Best Crusaders Poems
Paris the 13th
...Paris the 13th
Tears, my tears fall to wine
As I can not comprehend this horrendous crime
Men filled with such spiteful hate
Islamic teachings seal their fate
Kill and slaughter love and smile......
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Categories:
crusaders, death, dedication, freedom, humanity,
Form:
Light Verse
Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
...The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thri......
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Categories:
crusaders, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
What Happened
...WHAT HAPPENED
Darkness is enveloping sinister
and frightening,
Elusive, alluring, captivating and
Inviting,
Every night it falls like a
clock that is punctual,
And we accept it as a part o......
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Categories:
crusaders, dark, faith, light,
Form:
Rhyme
King Richard's Crusade
...“Make love tonight as if it were your last
Then hold your youngest; memorize his face
Next time you see your sons, years may have passed
Hold fast to moments time tries to erase
“Our lion-h......
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Categories:
crusaders, courage, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Rough Roads To Roam
...The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves th......
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Categories:
crusaders, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
The Winter Wars
...Winter is a deadly companion to those of us
who stay behind. Spring is not guaranteed, only
a lonesome song, frozen on the lips of my
fellow crusaders.
The tip of the spear belongs to the "Ice ......
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Categories:
crusaders, seasons,
Form:
Prose
My Folk Song
...Amadioha the great god of Thunder and Justice
We have gathered at the shrine of Alusi’gwe
To pour libations to you
Even as I do my folk song
Bring me the ogene, to awaken the spirit of my
Forb......
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Categories:
crusaders, culture, dance, god, philosophy,
Form:
Epic
Arabians To Zebras
...Ancient Arabians, mother to all
Bloodlines, essence of exquisiteness
Clydesdales, symmetry of strength
Dignity of duty, power of purpose
Ebony elegance, midnight silk
Friesians, crusaders in......
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Categories:
crusaders, freedom, horse, inspirational,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Dilettante Diaries: Goin' Gangsta On the Road To the Lotus Eaters At Loon Junction
...
“Pictures could not be accessories to the story – evidence – they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame”. Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eat......
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Categories:
crusaders, cool, courage, fun, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Multilayered - the Cause Is Civil Rights
...MULTILAYERED: THE CAUSE IS CIVIL RIGHTS!
How time has changed.
I am a colored woman by DNA living in a country of diversity.
I can remember my first day of school when my teacher asked me to sel......
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Categories:
crusaders, america, change, conflict, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Tears of Jerusalem
...Mighty oars to take us away from our shores
Our horsemen marshal their men at arms
The trek is long, battles of the blood-soaked
Our swords we hold high
Above our heads, the cross guides us to r......
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Categories:
crusaders, adventure, history, religion,
Form:
Light Verse
There was a Great Silence
...
"There was a Great Silence"
There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all the cacophony in t......
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Categories:
crusaders, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Wind Is Isolde - Part 1
...The warden’s bewildered, the keeper’s amazed
as the gate gapes behind us, a hole in the haze.
Our steps seem uncertain, the cobblestones crazed,
pearly stars burn above us like pinwheels ablaze.
......
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Categories:
crusaders, fantasy, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bawdiest One
...THE BAWDIEST ONE
At one with the world is like knowing the universe of people.
You see that is because he or she is transparent.
Even when you know he or she is a straight liar, you will......
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Categories:
crusaders, encouraging, freedom, humanity, imagery,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Jabberwock
...
"The Jabberwock"
My words flew
away from me
like a flock
of murderous
black crows
but little did I know
they were good omen
and on their wings
I flew to the fore......
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Categories:
crusaders, journey, muse,
Form:
Narrative